Wednesday, 13 August 2014

A Late Summer Walk

I thought I detected the slightest shift in the seasons yesterday, while we were out walking. The breeze was cool and the light softer than it was a couple of months ago. The blackberries are early and plentiful this year, and we picked enough to add to strawberries, redcurrants and blackcurrants to make a Summer Pudding. The leaves are losing their vivid depth of green and taking on a slightly faded, tired look, as thought all the colours have been turned down a notch.

I realised with a bit of a jolt that high summer has slowly become late summer, without me really noticing, and autumn is not that far around the corner.

I've noticed how many berries there are around and how there's a coolness in the air in the evenings. I'm hoping to do some blackberry picking over the next couple of weeks while I'm on leave - it's one of my favourite late summer things to do. x

Yes, my dear friend I also notice that summer is slowly starting to sleep away ... However, althought I do love, love summer I also look forward to warm tea and cozy evenings sitting by the fire and more knitting. Summer is not over yet though.

The same here ! Little signs of fall are already showing...Only a few days ago, I was declaring on another blog, that autumn only starts here at the end of september... Oops... I think it's because spring and summer was incredibly early this year, that fall has decided to pop up early as well. I don't mind, every season has his advantages...

It is noticeably cooler here too, but then it has been very hot, almost too hot some days. I have started making preserves and am quite pleased at the lower temperature, with the door open the kitchen is still warm when the jam pot is bubbling away. Fingers crossed for an "Indian summer"

Four seasons is a wonderful invention; I love how people are so happy (mostly) to see the world change. It's funny when you consider the lengths the modern world goes to to prevent change. I am looking forward to getting home, collecting my blackberries and making a decent crumble, to the first proper casserole of the year and to damp mornings when the leaves are cooking in late Indian summer sunshine!

Your photos of st yves are bringing me great memories of our time there. It was beautiful, there was something really special about the place. I love your embroidery design, it's really cute. Am in Spain at the moment so don't really have time to send a lot of comments but I'm still here, reading lovely posts of my favorite blogs.... :-)

We were saying the same thing only yesterday-the nights are slowly getting longer, but noticeably now. The back door isnt staying open as long and we even lit the fire in the didning room the other day-it was only a couple of days before that I had made the proclaimation that "we wont be using any coal until September" how wrong can you be!"

I couldn't agree more with you. I am still enjoying summer, not wanting Autumn to chase in too soon, unless it is going to be filled with those lovely sunny days that we used to get loads of in September and October xx